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Questions about removing part of an image at the sides, or about removing a few millimeters of paper from around the sides of a printed piece after printing.

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How to cut overlapping when save for web using artboards?

How can I auto cut the overlapping stuff outside the artboard when I save for web and/or just while using "normal export"? When I'm in the save for web window the image is bigger then the artboard ...
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Photoshop - Trim image so it fills canvas then resize to a set dimension?

I have been photographing and editing shoes on a regular basis for a local company. The images have been clipped so all the backgrounds are the same colours. I've been trying to speed up my workflow ...
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How to crop a vector graphic in Adobe Illustrator to paste into InDesign?

I tried cropping a vector image in Adobe Illustrator by following this link: How can I crop everything outside of an art board in Illustrator? I was able to do it once. I repeated the steps and it ...
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how to trim an image in Gimp [closed]

I wanna trim all white spaces surrounding an image's content using Gimp. Is there some straightforward method, or any trick?
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How to create own bleed markings to cut after printing?

We are making PDFs/EPS files to print. If we needed to make a crop mark to cut, we made small 90 degree angles from lines in the corners where the graphic was white. I checked crop marks which you ...
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With GIMP, how to crop a layer to the size of a different layer?

I have multiple layers in my project. I need to crop one (call it layer A) to the size of another (layer B). Neither has the full size of the image. I thought I would switch to B, Select All, switch ...
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Illustrator Pathfinder Minus Front Not Cropping Circle Shape Precisely

I'm trying to cut a circle shape with a rectangle overlay and it's changing the shape of the crop somehow. This is similar to the pixel grid issues except I have the align to pixel grid off. So IDK ...
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What's the name for cropping a video clip/animated gif in time and making it shorter?

I'm having a nightmare searching for this and it seems pretty simple. I have an animated gif and I would like to not have the last few seconds/frames. I.e. I would like to crop it in time, not ...
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Is there an automated way to remove cropped regions of embedded images in order to optimize the size of an Inkscape SVG file?

I am preparing some figures for a scientific publication using Inkscape. These figures are SVGs containing embedded bitmap images that are quite large, but only a small rectangular clipped region of ...
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Isolating an object in Photoshop to paste in Illustrator

I am trying to select an object out of a photo and place it in illustrator without a white background around it. I have selected the object, but if I try to paste it in illustrator it always sits ...
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What are the relevant ratios for converting to square ratio

I'm building an application that collects images and convert them to a square ratio images for usage as avatars in social networks. I want to understand what is the range of image ratios that I can ...
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Crop image background out? [closed]

I just started using photoshop today, and this is my first question in Graphic Design, so pardon me if this is a simple question. I have bee researching for about two hours now, on how to crop out the ...
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How to set canvas size in MyPaint?

How do I set the canvas size in MyPaint 1.1.0? There is no dialog when creating a new document and there seem to be no options or settings in any of the menus. The exact same question was asked on a ...
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Photoshop Cropping - edge of image based on center selection

I do bulk editing and would like to be able to record and automate a set of instructions that accomplish the following. Say I have an image of an apple. The apple is off center - ie, the background ...
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How can I crop images so as to change their aspect ratio?

For header images on a site I'm working on we are using 1280x480 px images. The images I have been given are not 1280x480 px, so I need to crop them, but I can't just crop them any which way - I need ...
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Photoshop: How to crop multiple selection and save into separated images [duplicate]

Take a look on this image: My question is how to crop multiple selections at once into images (each square of comic strip). I want to select each frame of the comic and export them as individual ...
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How to remove edges from eliptical tool selection?

You cannot see it when it's on a white background, but Can someone tell me how I can erase the boarder from this image in Gimp? I want it to be a perfect circle. I'm going to be using this with a ...
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How to place cut marks on a 2UP image in Indesign for Printing?

Getting an image ready to print and ran into a problem of cut marks/crop marks not appearing once the file is printed. Just to review the steps I took while working in InDesign to layout the image: ...
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How to crop a JPEG without recompressing?

Is it possible to crop a JPEG image without losing quality or recompressing the remaining part of the image?
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How to quickly get inside of this magic wand tool border selection - complex image

Original image : http://orig10.deviantart.net/cf51/f/2013/234/c/1/_8__uscail_by_el_dark_core-d6jbjv0.png I need to get inside of this white border selection how to do it? Here the selection http://...
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How can I break up a picture in three segments for separate framing? [duplicate]

I have a wonderful picture of our horse (in portrait) and would love to enlarge it and frame it for my husband. I was thinking of breaking the picture up into three different segments and then framing ...
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Does Photoshop CS6 Lens Correction need to be done before other edits?

If I have a photograph and forgot to do Lens Correction for the lens used to take the photograph, and have subsequently done these operations: Crop Perspective Crop Levels adjustment per 50% gray ...
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Keep background layer when cropping (script)

I know that if you choose "Delete Cropped Pixels" in the crop tool, that it will preserve the background layer, as a background layer. However, I wished that I could still maintain this function when ...
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Slice an image into pieces and generate images that contain all the prior parts

Say I have an image of width 1000. I need to slice the image into 100 slices ,which will generate 100 images. Each one of the 100 images must be of length 10 * (slice number), so that it will contain ...
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Perfect circle inside a square

I need to cut out a prefect circle from a square image, sort of like this: a circle http://h311.info/cropzor.JPG This is pretty close but I've been using "feel" so I am not 100% sure this is perfect,...
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Photoshop crop has blurred/feathered edge

I have occasionally been having a problem in Photoshop where the edges of a cropped image are feathered by a couple of pixels. Not a big deal on images that are thousands of pixels on a side but it's ...
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Change canvas size without cropping in Photoshop?

It is possible to have images and objects, which are larger than canvas size in photoshop: Then why is it asking for crop if canvas resized? Why should I loose information when I resizing just a ...
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Is there a way to intelligently auto crop photos?

I've got 12,000 photos from an event where, on every photo, there's about 10-15% of the photo that needs to be cropped off. It's not the same in every photo, so I can't just do a single batch crop. ...
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Intersect (Pathfinder) a picture and shape on Illustrator

How to subtract a shape from a picture without using Clipping Mask? I don't want to use Clipping Mask because it lefts a bouding box instead permanent crop. See: Left image with bounding box (...
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Indesign - how to set up a page for printing with crop marks

I received the request to make a project with Indesign. 300px width 100px height. This project should have the crop marks on the corners. Questions: 1) If I want to have those crop marks, should I ...
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How to trim by hand using crop marks?

I'm quite new to printing graphics. I understand why crop marks are used when printing, and on the face of it, they seem quite straight-forward to use. However, when I went to trim a document I have ...
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Loss of quality when cropping smart objects in Photoshop [closed]

I'm using a crop tool (or marquee tool, then Image -> Crop) in Photoshop CS4. Immediately after cropping, the quality of anti-aliasing of Smart Object gets noticeably worse. The blending mode of the ...
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Unconventional Crop In Illustrator

I need to crop this image in such a way that the space below "submit your picture here!" is taken out, because I'm going to use that space for a "choose file" form on my website. I tried creating a ...
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How to crop a square at the exact centre of an image in Photoshop?

Given a square image, how can I crop, at the exact center, of the image? What if the image is not square itself? What if I'm using Photoshop CS6 or some older version? Is the procedure the same?
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I have cropped part of the image and want to crop another part of another image with the same size and location

I'm using Adobe Photoshop CC, and have cropped part of some image, and have saved a .ps version of such crop. I have another image, for which I want to make the crop with exact size and location of ...
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How to crop space after applying drop shadow?

In Inkscape I have drawn a square and then applied Drop Shadow filter to it. How could I please get rid of the appeared top and left space? I need to have the top-left corner of the yellow square at ...
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How to crop part of the image between guide lines?

I have few photoshop files with blue guide lines like on this picture below. I want to quickly save only one part of the picture that is between these guides, in the middle. What is best way to do ...
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Shortcut to creating assets in Photoshop

Does anyone know a shortcut to select a layer in photoshop, open up a new file that automatically is the correct size, or even has the element in it without having to drag in a new document and then ...
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How to save a picture after cropping in Photoshop CS6?

I used Photoshop CS6 to crop a photo and I don't see any way to save the image. Where is there a save button?
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Simple tool for cropping and scaling images

I am wondering if there is a simple and quick tool for cropping and scaling images. For example, if when creating a web page for an online store, you might need a set of images for each product. ...
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Color palette next to crop marks - function?

I'm wondering what the function of adding these color spectrums is? Attaching screenshot.
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How can I change the color of a scanned png and edit part of it out in illustrator cs6?

The image is in color with a white background. I want to make the image white with a colored background. I want to switch the colors (make image white and background the color of the current image. I ...
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Photoshop: Save a part without cropping

when I need to save a part of an image as a new image in photoshop, I crop the picture, save-as, and undo the cropping. On huge files this is slow, and feels inefficient. Is there a better way to ...
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Crop to specific size (not a ratio of it) in Photoshop

I'd like to crop several images to a specific size. Previously, I would set the size in the crop tool and happily run through a few images and have them all crop to the same specific size. Now it ...
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Crop image while keeping center point

I have an animation that is split up in ~20 individual images that I use for a mobile game. The game engine I use will take all the individual images and compile them into a sprite sheet for me. My ...
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Paper size for A4 publication

I want to make an A4 saddle stitch booklet(A3 spreads). I am confused as to what paper size I would have to use. I would have to include crop marks and bleed and if I printed on A3 would I have to ...
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Cropping every background photo in a PowerPoint presentation with a script?

I have a presentation in which I've used a different large photograph as a background photo on each slide. Each photo overlaps the slide bounds in a different configuration in order to align it as ...
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Cropping SVG files

How do I crop SVG files I created used MarvinSketch? Now I realise there are a few answers to this question like this one Getting rid of Whitespace in Inkscape but I've done that and it didn't work as ...
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What is the name of the old manual sizing tool for measuring photos, to be used in offset printing?

Years ago, before computers took over, I worked with a photo cropping tool; I hope someone can tell me its name. The gizmo I used was for sizing photos so they could be used in offset printing. They ...
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How to resize canvas interactively in Photoshop CS6?

If I resize canvas from menu, then the size of larger objects not change. I.e. they still have some portions existing outside of canvas. Meanwhile, if I do crop with interactive tool, I loose outside ...
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